From the Anne Frank House channel on YouTube...Here's the clip's description...July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film. At the time of her wedding, the bride lived on the second floor at Merwedeplein 39. The Frank family lived at number 37, also on the second floor.This...
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Cad Bane: Best new Star Wars baddie in a LONG time!
Previously I'd noted that I've been late to the game so far as Cartoon Network's Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series goes. I'm now regretting it even more, because today was the first time that I got to see Cad Bane in action.What else can I say? Cad is easily the awesomest new villainous addition to the Star Wars pantheon in too great a long while. Everything about...
I've newfound respect for the Olympics
International Olympic Committee, congratulations: y'all did the way right thing in picking Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Games.I've never been to Rio, but have heard a lot of good things about that town over the years. Maybe this'll be a good enough excuse to finally check out the place ...
Friday, October 02, 2009
Doctor Emmett Brown has been targeted for termination!
Skynet needs more gigawatts!How It Should Have Ended is famous across the 'Net for their perversely funny take on well-known movies. This is one of their best y...
I can't label nothing no more...
Yours Truly has gone hogwild with the labels feature ever since I first started using it about two years ago: Blogger has told me that there's a 2000 labels limit and I'm all out.C'mon Google, we expect better from you! Fix this, please :-)EDIT 09:32 p.m. EST: Taking a looksee around the blogosphere, many users of Blogger are reporting problems with labels. I'm hearing that Google/Blogger implemented some "improvements" and that a restriction on...
U.S. unemployment hits 9.8%
Last month employers across the country slashed more than a quarter-million jobs, sending the unemployment rate in America precariously close to ten percent.So one-tenth of the domestic workforce is... out of work. Doesn't sound like any recovering economy to me. Heck, that sounds an awful lot like depressi...
Thursday, October 01, 2009
It's THE A-TEAM!
ComingSoon.net has the first pic of the complete The A-Team ensemble! From left to right we see Quinton "Rampage" Jackson as B.A. Baracus, Liam Neeson as "Hanibal" Smith, Sharlto Copley (most recently seen playing Wikus in District 9) as Murdock, and Bradley Cooper as "Faceman" Peck.Okay, minus getting to see the mohawk and gold chains of B.A., that looks pretty darned persuasive...
LEGO versions of classic photographs
Mike Stimpson is a photographer... and a LEGO maniac. So he combined his love of both and came up with a series of pics replicating some of the most famous images in modern history with LEGO bricks and minfigs (like Stimpson's take on the classic VJ Day kiss in New York City, shown at right). The Daily Beast has more about Stimpson's work along with the photos that inspired...
Bay promises third Transformers movie for 2011
On his official site, Michael Bay has publicly vowed that a third Transformers flick for summer after next. It's set to roll out on July 1st, 2011.From his blog...Well its official: We have a great Transformers 3 story. The release date is now July 1st 2011. Not 2012.Today is Day One. This morning started with an ILM meeting for five hours in San Francisco. Currently I'm flying with writer Ehren Kruger to Rhode Island to talk to Hasbro about new...
Wireless networking hacked to see through walls! (BUT...)
Okay, first the bad news: researchers have found a way to modify wireless networking signal processing so that people outside your home or office can "see" what you are doing right through the building's walls.But there is also good news: another group of researchers has developed a new kind of paint that blocks wireless networking radio waves! Just coat those same walls...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Interesting pics from the RED DAWN remake
Wasn't sure at first what to think about a remake of 1984's Red Dawn. But after seeing a number of behind-the-scenes images like this one......y'all can now color me "curious". It's been a long time since we've had an anti-communist movie. And making it China instead of the Soviet Union is going to be an intriguing update on the original's premise.Red Dawn 2010 is the site...
"Missing" content finally restored to STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC II
While we're waiting for Star Wars: The Old Republic (and BioWare is now taking applications for closed beta testing if you're into that sort of thing) maybe this'll satiate your appetite in the meantime. About five years ago Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II came out but instead of BioWare doing the follow-up to their original game, work was contracted out to Obsidian....
Skull thought to be Hitler's is actually of a woman
In April of 1945, during the final days of the European theater and with the approaching rumble of Soviet tanks heralding the collapse of his "Thousand Year Reich", Adolf Hitler is said to have committed suicide within his Berlin bunker. His longtime mistress Eva Braun also joined him in death, rather than be captured alive. They took cyanide and then shot themselves. And...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Johnny Robertson channels Oral Roberts! Cult leader exclaims "This may be our last night!"
This has to be one of the most ridiculous broadcasts I've ever seen coming out of Johnny Robertson and the "Church of Christ in Name Only". And that's sayin' something...He started at 10 p.m. tonight on the program out of WGSR's Martinsville studio, ranting about Bob Lawson (several e-mails came in today saying that Lawson pitched my blog during Charles Roark's The Local Buzz earlier this afternoon and that neither Roark or Robertson like that at...
Now it's a North Carolina school making kids sing about Obama
Last week it was news of an elementary school in New Jersey that had forced its students to chant a song of praise about Barack Obama.And now there's this video, made at Sand Hill Elementary School in Asheville, North Carolina (one of my most very favorite places that I've lived, incidentally)...What the heck is going on here?Actually, that's a very rhetorical question. Because I do know what's going on here. I've watched it build and grow for...
I'm getting #@&% sick and tired of EVONY ads!!
Whoever is responsible for all of those #@&% banner ads for Evony needs to be dragged out into the street and shot hung from the nearest telephone pole by his circular reproductive units with piano wire.Seriously.No, I haven't played this game. But I have heard from numerous sources that it is terrible. And the thing about Evony being "free forever" is a fraud: to achive...
It's not Saturday worship, it's SABBATH worship! A visit to a Seventh-day Adventist church
During the nearly six years that The Knight Shift has been blogging the exploits and ideas of its eclectic proprietor, I've chronicled a lot of interesting topics. This next one easily ranks up there among the more fulfilling things that I've had the pleasure of writing about. And I can't help but feel like I came away from this with not only newly-found appreciation and...
